A protester is arrested by anti-riot police during a demonstration against a proposed Ebola quarantine centre at Laikipia Air Base in Nanyuki, Kenya [Brian Inganga/AP Photo]
People confront Kenyan police during protests against a controversial US-built Ebola quarantine centre in Nanyuki. [Luis Tato/AFP]
Protesters carry a mock coffin as they march in Nanyuki. [Luis Tato/AFP]
A Kenyan police officer fires tear gas during clashes with protesters. [Luis Tato/AFP]
Kenya has never recorded a case of Ebola and many oppose the idea of bringing potential carriers of the disease into the country. [Monicah Mwangi/Reuters]
Police officers take cover during protests in Nanyuki. [Brian Inganga/AP Photo]
People gesture near the body of a person killed during protests against the proposed US Ebola quarantine centre. [Brian Inganga/AP Photo]
Police officers detain a protester. [Monicah Mwangi/Reuters]
Protesters arrested by anti-riot police during in Nanyuki. [Brian Inganga/AP Photo]
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Rescue workers conduct an operation at a collapsed building in General Santos City, the Philippines [Ferdinandh Cabrera/AFP]
Collapsed buildings in General Santos City. [Handout via Reuters]
The quake on Monday is the strongest to hit the Philippines this year. [Ferdinandh Cabrera/AFP]
People on motorcycles pass by a collapsed building in General Santos. [AP Photo]
Several low-rise buildings collapsed or sustained heavy damage. [Emil Elbert P. Prudente/EPA]
The epicentre of the earthquake was offshore near Mindanao, the second most populous island in the Philippine archipelago. [Emil Elbert P. Prudente/EPA]
A dog is seen outside a collapsed Jollibee fast food restaurant next to a church in General Santos City. [Daniel Ceng/Anadolu]
People injured in the earthquake receive medical treatment at a hospital in General Santos. [Daniel Ceng/Anadolu]
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Pope Leo XIV arrives in the popemobile at Plaza de Cibeles for a Holy Mass and Corpus Christi procession in Madrid, Spain [Bernat Armangue/AP Photo]
Pope Leo XIV arrives to preside over Mass marking the Catholic feast of Corpus Christi in Plaza de Cibeles in Madrid. [Alessandra Tarantino/AP Photo]
Waiting for Pope Leo at Plaza de Cibeles. [Andrea Comas/AP Photo]
Leo arrived in Spain on Saturday and urged its people to put an end to polarisation and to work for unity. [Alessandra Tarantino/AP Photo]
Mass was held on the Catholic Corpus Domini feast day. [Andrea Comas/AP Photo]
For Sunday’s Mass and procession, local organisers said 1.2 million people turned out with more trying to get in. [Manu Fernandez/AP Photo]
Pope Leo XIV presides over Mass marking the Catholic feast of Corpus Christi in Plaza de Cibeles in Madrid. [Alessandra Tarantino/AP Photo]
Pope Leo XIV takes part in a procession at Plaza de Cibeles. [Andrea Comas/AP Photo]
Pope Leo holds Mass marking the Catholic feast of Corpus Christi at Plaza de Cibeles in Madrid. [Manu Fernandez/AP Photo]
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A police officer extinguishes a burning barricade in Nanyuki, Kenya. [Andrew Kasuku/AP Photo]
The protests on Monday came two days after Kenya’s High Court suspended the establishment of the facility and arrival of any foreign patients. [Andrew Kasuku/AP Photo]
Kenyan soldiers patrol as protesters rally against the proposed centre. [Andrew Kasuku/AP Photo]
Health Minister Aden Duale said that the quarantine centre is for 'everyone' and not exclusively for US nationals. [Andrew Kasuku/AP Photo]
Protesters in Nanyuki. [Andrew Kasuku/AP Photo]
Local leaders, including Laikipia Governor Joshua Irungu, told journalists they oppose an Ebola quarantine centre. [Andrew Kasuku/AP Photo]
Anti-riot police stand by as protesters rally in Nanyuki. [Andrew Kasuku/AP Photo]
A protester with a Kenyan flag near a burning barricade. [Andrew Kasuku/AP Photo]
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A man wearing traditional dress marches with a Serbian flag as antigovernment protesters throw flares at riot police in Belgrade. [Armin Durgut/AP Photo]
An antigovernment protester taunts riot police in Belgrade during a rally led by students who are pushing for political change in Serbia. [Armin Durgut/AP Photo]
Riot police advance to disperse antigovernment protesters. [Darko Vojinovic/AP Photo]
Clashes were first reported near a camp of Vucic loyalists in a park outside the Serbian presidency building. [Armin Durgut/AP Photo]
Plainclothes police detain an antigovernment protester in Belgrade. [Darko Vojinovic/AP Photo]
The Serbian president has come under international scrutiny for his hardline tactics against demonstrators over the past year. [Darko Vojinovic/AP Photo]
Large crowds of demonstrators pour into central Belgrade. [Darko Vojinovic/AP Photo]
The rally in Belgrade was the latest in more than a year of antigovernment demonstrations that began after the collapse of a railway station canopy killed 16 people in Novi Sad on November 1, 2024. [Armin Durgut/AP Photo]
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Kenyan security forces arrest a person during a protest against the increase in fuel prices in Nairobi [Lucas Mukasa/Anadolu]
A riot police officer fires at protesters during a strike by public transport operators driven by rising fuel costs, in Githurai area of Nairobi. [Monicah Mwangi/Reuters]
The strike was launched on Monday by transport operators in response to the latest sharp fuel price hike. [Monicah Mwangi/Reuters]
Kenyan police use tear gas to disperse protesters during the second day of protests in Githurai, Nairobi. [Daniel Irungu/EPA]
Kenyan police detain protesters in Githurai. [Daniel Irungu/EPA]
Rights groups condemned the use of lethal force by security forces. [Daniel Irungu/EPA]
Police said on Tuesday that more than 700 people had been arrested in connection with the violent protests. [Daniel Irungu/EPA]
A motorcycle taxi rides through coloured tear gas as riot police disperse protesters. [Monicah Mwangi/Reuters]
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Women protest against President Rodrigo Paz's government in El Alto, Bolivia, on May 16 [Claudia Morales/Reuters]
Riot police officers stand guard during clashes with protesters in Lipari, La Paz. [Aizar Raldes/AFP]
A demonstrator wearing a face mask holds a rock as tear gas spreads behind him in El Alto, Bolivia, on May 16. [Claudia Morales/Reuters]
Protesters stand next to burning tyres as they demonstrate against President Rodrigo Paz's government in El Alto, Bolivia, on May 16. [Claudia Morales/Reuters]
Riot police fire tear gas at blocking a road in Lipari, La Paz. [Aizar Raldes/AFP]
Tear gas fills the streets in El Alto, Bolivia, as protesters rally on May 16. [Claudia Morales/Reuters]
People on bikes ride around barricades set up by protesters on the highway connecting La Paz with Oruro, near El Alto, Bolivia, on May 16. [Juan Karita/AP Photo]
Police and army vehicles patrol a highway blocked by antigovernment protesters near El Alto, Bolivia, on May 16. [Juan Karita/AP Photo]
Trucks line up on the highway connecting La Paz with Oruro on May 16, amid roadblocks set up by antigovernment protesters. [Juan Karita/AP Photo]
Men detained by police sit on the ground in Lipari, Bolivia, as government forces carry out a crackdown on May 16. [Claudia Morales/Reuters]
Police officers arrest a person during protests on May 16 in Lipari, Bolivia, as the government pushes to clear vital roadways near La Paz. [Claudia Morales/Reuters]
Protesters in Bolivia have been orchestrating roadblocks for weeks, in a sign of frustration with President Rodrigo Paz's government. [Claudia Morales/Reuters]
Remote-controlled riot-control robots are deployed in Plaza Murillo near government buildings in La Paz on May 16. [AFP]
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University students and teachers protest against Javier Milei's government funding cuts to the public university system, in Buenos Aires, Argentina [Luis Robayo/AFP]
Huge crowds in central Buenos Aires marched towards the presidential palace on Tuesday to denounce budget shortfalls. [Cristina Sille/Reuters]
Protesters say the cuts are undermining the foundations of higher education. [Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo]
Argentina’s public universities have been tuition-free since 1949. [Cristina Sille/Reuters]
A woman holds a banner reading "They are afraid of the educated people" in a subway train in Buenos Aires. [Luis Robayo/AFP]
Javier Milei regularly denounces universities as bastions of "woke" teaching. [Luis Robayo/AFP]
A student holds a sign that reads: "Science isn't expensive, ignorance is." [Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo]
Milei has sharply reduced public education spending as part of a broader effort to slash the state budget, which he argues has been bloated by decades of reckless expenditures and corruption. [Luis Robayo/AFP]
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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a ceremony to lay flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin Wall in central Moscow. [Alexander Nemenov/Pool via Reuters]
Russian servicemen march in Moscow's Red Square during the Victory Day military parade. [Igor Ivanko/AFP]
North Korean servicemen wait for the start of the Victory Day parade. [Pavel Bednyakov/Pool via EPA]
The May 9 parade on Moscow’s Red Square is Russia’s most revered national holiday. [Maxim Shipenkov/EPA]
Russian military jets fly over the Victory Day military parade. [Maxim Shipenkov/EPA]
This year’s parade featured no tanks or other heavy military hardware rolling across the cobblestones of Moscow's Red Square. [Igor Ivanko/AFP]
Soldiers and sailors, some of whom have served in Ukraine, marched and chanted as President Vladimir Putin looked on. [Maxim Shipenkov/EPA]
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico attends a flower-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin Wall in Moscow. [Shamil Zhumatov/Pool via Reuters]
Russian President Vladimir Putin and foreign leaders attend the ceremony to lay flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. [Alexander Nemenov/Pool via Reuters]
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Tourists visit the Treasury in the ruins of the ancient Nabatean city of Petra, Jordan. [Mussa Hattar/AFP]
Ukrainian tourist Ruslana Novak poses at the Treasury in the ruins of the ancient Nabatean city of Petra. [Mussa Hattar/AFP]
Since the US-Israel war on Iran began in late February, the famed Rose City has been largely deserted. [Mussa Hattar/AFP]
Traditionally dressed Nabatean Guards with spears at the Siq of Petra. [Mussa Hattar/AFP]
Waiting for customers at souvenir shops in the ancient Nabatean city of Petra. [Mussa Hattar/AFP]
The South Gate at the Roman ruins of Jerash in northern Jordan. [Mussa Hattar/AFP]
The 800-metre-long Cardo colonnade at the ancient Roman ruins of Jerash. [Mussa Hattar/AFP]
A Jordanian flag flies in the oval plaza at the ancient Roman ruins of Jerash. [Mussa Hattar/AFP]